Excellent nights viewing at last

[Nightshift]

Well the moon is about to rise and the eastern sky is starting to lighten up so I have just packed up my 12 inch after a near perfect night of viewing.

I spent most of the night poking around crux paying particular attention to red stars, binary's and clusters. Who doesnt love that little carbon star next to Beta crux (mimosa) ? and... the red and blue stars in the jewel box were just outstanding tonight, does anyone else see a cute little fox from the primary stars of the jewel box? he is looking to the left with his tail vertical. And then there's Omega Centauri, I could resolve millions of stars in it tonight, I started trying to count the brighter one's but what a joke. NGC 3766, 3603, 3590, 3572 and 3496 were all clear and brilliant, Eta carinae was superb too.

All in all, a very stable and clear night with seeing near perfect. Looking forward to Rons on the 29th more than ever now.

[astroron]

Great to hear that you are getting some use at last out of your 12", looking forward to next week when we can see it in action.:eyepop: :astron: :stargaze:

[[1ponders]]

Glad to see you out and about Dennis. You obviously weren't able to see Jupiter down low from your place. Yuck. Tried a couple of vids but nothing to write home about. Things looked nice up high though.

[Nightshift]

Jupiter is a front yard object for me and as you know, to much light there so I didnt bother, nup I had a lovely time looking south to zenith and all in between, saw a couple of good meteorites too, good time of the year for them, actually, from my position one of them looked like it headed straight for your house? Maybe I was wrong.

[[1ponders]]

I'm looking forward to spending some time out just looking on either tomorrow night or Sunday night.